ARIN ARBUS (Director) is the Associate Artistic Director at Theatre for a New Audience, for which she directed last season’s repertory productions of A Doll’s House and The Father, and, in previous seasons, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Measure for Measure and Othello. She staged La Traviata for The Canadian Opera Company and The Lyric Opera of Chicago as well as Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia at Houston Grand Opera. She was a Drama League Directing Fellow, a Princess Grace Award Recipient and spent several years making theatre with prisoners at Woodbourne Correctional Facility in association with Rehabilitation Through the Arts.

ERIC FARBER (Mammoth/Musician/Percussion Designer) is a percussionist and sound artist based in Brooklyn. Eric’s performance and design work was featured in FUTURITY (Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Set Design, Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical, OBA Award for Best New Musical – Soho Rep/Ars Nova) and The Foundry Theatre’s Good Person of Szechwan (Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Music in a Play – Public Theater, LaMama). Eric is a member of The Lisps, and has an MFA from Bard College and a BA from The New School University. www.kineticontology.com

ARTHUR FRENCH(Professor/Chair-Pusher) was last seen on Broadway in The Trip to Bountiful. He is a Founding Member of the Negro Ensemble Co. and a recipient of the Actors’ Equity 2015 Paul Robeson Award for distinguished contributions to the performing arts.

MAX GORDON (Refugee/Musician) is a music director, orchestrator, and music producer. He won the 2016 NYMF Award for Best Orchestrations for Dust Can’t Kill Me, a new folk musical. He has worked as an audio engineer for Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center, and as a vocal producer for artists on Universal Music Group and Capitol Records. His songwriting and production recently appeared on Charles Perry’s debut album (Verve Records).

KECIA LEWIS(Mrs. Antrobus) most recently created the role of Sister Rosetta Tharpe to critical acclaim in the Atlantic Theater Company’s Marie and Rosetta, as well as the title role in Mother Courage and Her Children at CSC. Broadway/Off-Broadway: Leap of Faith, Chicago, The Drowsy Chaperone, Big River, Once on this Island, Dessa Rose (Drama Desk nom.), and Dreamgirls. Television: “Conviction,” “Blue Bloods,” “Limitless,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” and recurring on “Law & Order: SVU.”

KIMBER MONROE (Gladys) is excited to be back at TFANA! TFANA: The Father/A Doll’s House (Bertha/Ellen). Broadway: South Pacific (Ensemble/u.s. Ngana and Jerome). Regional: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (Tillie). Film: Applesauce (Cameron). Commercial: National print/TV. Other: She Kills Monsters (Agnes Evans), Macbeth (Porter). Third-year BFA student at The New School. Much love to my ever-supportive mom and brothers Kai and Coco. Thanks to Dina Torres and everyone at GenerationTV.

REYNALDO PINIELLA (Henry) was last seen in The Death of the Last Black Man… (Signature Theatre Company). TV credits include “Sneaky Pete,” “Greenleaf,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “NYC 22,” “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” “Us & Them,” “Louie,” “Flesh & Bone,” “The Carrie Diaries,” and “The Plug” (pilot). He will next be seen in Venus at Signature Theatre Company. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram @ReynaldoRey. www.reynaldopiniella.com

DAVID RASCHE (Mr. Antrobus) began his career at Chicago’s famed The Second City. Broadway: Speed the Plough, Lunch Hour (dir. Mike Nichols), Loose Ends, The Shadow Box. Off-Broadway: Little Miss Sunshine, Warrior Class (Second Stage); The Seagull (CSC); Regrets Only, Last Dance (MTC); Edmond (Atlantic); No One Will Be Immune (Ensemble Studio Theater). Film: In the Loop, Burn After Reading, Men in Black III, Flags of Our Fathers, Flight 93, The Sentinel, An Innocent Man, The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, That Old Feeling, Delirious, Manhattan. TV: recurring roles on “VEEP” and “Bored To Death” and the title character in “Sledge Hammer!”

STORM THOMAS(Act I Announcer/Broadcast Official/Refugee) is a playwright, performer, puppet maker, and award-winning poet. Storm performed in the Off-Broadway production of FUTURITY (Mandolin) and has worked with César Alvarez since 2012. Since receiving an MFA from Sarah Lawrence, Storm co-founded To Rena, Love Us, the whimsical performance company, with Marisa Clementi. Storm has written Notes on the Past (Transgender Theater Festival @ The Brick Theater) and the musical ANCIENT FUTURE, which will be performed this summer. For more information go to torenaloveus.com.

MARY WISEMAN (Sabina) is a recent graduate of Juilliard. In New York she’s appeared in Therese Raquin and Off-Broadway in An Octoroon at Theatre for a New Audience. She’s performed the last two summers at Williamstown Theatre Festival in Off The Main Road and, most recently, Romance Novels for Dummies. TV credits include “Baskets” alongside Zach Galifinakis, Netflix’s “Longmire,” “The Characters,” and Hulu’s “Difficult People.”